Imaginative – Quotes

The best historian is

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers. G. M. Trevelyan

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality… Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). … Read more

Pastors need to know

Pastors need to know what’s going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive. Eugene H. Peterson

There are some advantages

There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I’m interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying … Read more

Some filmmakers don’t want

Some filmmakers don’t want to just entertain, to play with the audience like a little ball and then dump them. They want you to be imaginative, and if you’re intrigued, the work will grow on you and you’re going to build your own interpretation. Emmanuel Benbihy

I get imaginative with

I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin’ on rappers, causin’ hospital accidents. Eminem

It\\’s very difficult, I

It’s very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that you really want to do and also to be an active, engaged, compassionate, giving human being in the world, to the people around you and to your broader community. Emily Barton

Because I think of

Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings that maybe point in more than one direction, and that seems important to me because it seems important to me that after you’ve invested twenty or thirty hours of your imaginative … Read more

They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed

They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they’re being amusing and imaginative, just like children. But kids never lie playfully. They lie as if their lives depended on it. Ellen Potter